[This article is part of the Open Peer Review-Publication series “Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitism in International Perspective”] von Daniel Véri <1> This study aims to reconstruct and analyse the anti-Semitic visual reception history of the Tiszaeszlár blood libel case from the time of the affair (1882–83) up until today. It examines images created in connection with the blood libel together with their...

[This article is part of the Open Peer Review-Publication series “Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitism in International Perspective”] von Richard E. Fraenkel <1> In the late nineteenth century, prominent voices warned of the danger posed by a ‘flood’ of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Political and religious figures described a mysterious conspiracy directed by international Jewish financiers aimed at world domination. Jews found...

In his works on the intellectual history of the 19th century, the German-Baltic cultural historian Viktor Hehn (1813–1890), whose books were widely read as part of popular classic literature among the educated German middle class down to the years after WW II, repeatedly referred to the death of Goethe as the beginning of the “Jewish era.“ That caesura in 1832...

In 1882 the first anti-Jewish international congress was convened in central Europe. The congress preceded the creation of international Jewish organizations, which at that time still relied primarily on notables like Montefiore or Rothschild. The present paper wishes to examine the emergence of modern international Jewish organizations in the context of the rise of modern anti-Semitism. I will argue that...

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This blog accompanies the international Symposium “Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitism in International Perspective”. This Symposium will take place from 21st to 23rd October 2015 in Paris and will be organized by the Max Weber Foundation and its institutes (German Historical Institutes London, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Warsaw, Washington, the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris, the Orient Institute Istanbul) as well as the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU Berlin.